Re: [Visualpython-users] [Q] Running VPython on IBM ThinkPad

[Bruce S. <ba...@an...>]

My first guess is a problem with the video driver, since you are getting 
something to happen. If I remember correctly, the IBM ThinkPad has a rather 
incompetent graphics card, and so might not do a decent job of supporting 
OpenGL; it would be interesting to know whether anyone has had success 
running VPython or other OpenGL applications on a ThinkPad. You could try 
going to the web page for ThinkPad and downloading the latest video driver.

It might also be useful to run the demo program glinfo.py and report its 
output.

Bruce Sherwood

--On Wednesday, November 14, 2001 21:47 -0600 Young-Jin Lee 
<yl...@ui...> wrote:

> Hi, I have problem running VPython on my IBM ThinkPad.
> When I ran VPython scripts, on my ThinkPad (T22 with Windows 2000
> professional), nothing came up in the scene window. I saw the print
> string, "Visual-2001-11-08" in the windows command tool, but VPython
> display remained black. But VPython seemed to draw something because when
> I move the cursor on top of VPython display, it blinked. Is this known
> problem? How can I run VPython on my laptop?
> Thanks in advance.